Marco Silva Quotes

Rome was not built in one day.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

It really has been just take it one day a time, one fight at a time, one training camp at a time, one year at a time.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

Step by step and the thing is done.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

No great thing is created suddenly.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

For me pressure is positive. The players need to know they need to deliver results because we have massive support but we also need time because Rome was not built in a day.

Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

There's no reason why we can't win trophies at Stoke, we'll try and win some cups and do as well as we can, but I obviously have ambitions.